I have done my new compulsory "You have to be polite to the racists and transphobes" training for work. I think I can still call them that in terms of exercising *my* free speech and right to protest, so long as I do it politely.
02.02.2026 12:30 — 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Also, if you like this podcast, I have written quite a number of novels. I mention it only because a WHOLE BOOK GROUP came to my show last night and they were surprised to hear I'd ever published a book. And I've been publishing them since 2004 so that suggests I've got work to do on promotion.
01.02.2026 12:01 — 👍 111 🔁 13 💬 10 📌 2
One of my most cherished classes is my 18th century novels course where the primary learning objective is "learn how read long novels." We did a "couch to 5k" approach to attention span and note-taking.
31.01.2026 16:23 — 👍 627 🔁 153 💬 19 📌 20
Just to say, this book has for a variety of reasons been a particularly hard write, and I’ve been beset by doubt until pretty much yesterday. But this feeling, when the flow happens, is just the best. Why would you ever want a machine to do this for you?
31.01.2026 13:54 — 👍 39 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Snowdrop flowers growing on a mossy forest floor
Snowdrops growing in a Scottish woodland.
31.01.2026 13:40 — 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1
There should be a lengthy German word to describe the feeling of being trans and enduring the deliberate witch hunt of 'you're a threat to children,' co-ordinated by the very people and systems who were and are active dangers to children, hiding in plain sight and celebrating their crimes together.
31.01.2026 12:18 — 👍 50 🔁 21 💬 4 📌 0
I have spent fifty years rolling my eyes at conspiracy theories where all the elite rich people are in a secret evil gang, and thrillers where everyone remotely important has the same Dark Secret, and now sodding look.
31.01.2026 08:21 — 👍 1168 🔁 251 💬 15 📌 14
Honestly, reality can't plot for shit.
31.01.2026 08:22 — 👍 243 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 2
🌞 Spring Tour dates! Come along if I’m round your way. Full details & ticket info in bio or here, www.bandsintown.com/a/7187010-an... 🩷 #folksong #blackhistoryisbritishhistory
31.01.2026 09:23 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
www.raceandregency.org/podcast
We are so lucky to have brilliant Shruti Jain hosting and producing the @race-regency.bsky.social podcast!
30.01.2026 23:56 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Philadelphia you ARE perfect! See you next Saturday, Philly people <3
30.01.2026 19:39 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I received a graduate certificate in women's and gender studies from Texas A&M in 2018. If you know my work, you know how much that foundation shaped what I do.
I'm not sure what else to say right now.
30.01.2026 21:06 — 👍 56 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
Jacket design for Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science by Ross Brooks. It features a historic, drawn image of a gynandromorph gypsy moth, with distinctive female patterning on its left side and male on its right. Against a black background, the image and text (title and author's name) are brightly rendered in a spectrum of colours resonant of the Progress Pride Flag.
My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏
UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📚🐵
US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🗃️🦋
30.01.2026 10:20 — 👍 313 🔁 119 💬 27 📌 10
NEW TRAILER 👀
30.01.2026 15:19 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.
29.01.2026 22:22 — 👍 1052 🔁 222 💬 23 📌 1
'A consultation run by the City of London Corporation and published on Thursday found that nearly 90% of respondents backed trans-inclusive access to the ponds' 💪🏳️⚧️❤️
29.01.2026 12:26 — 👍 53 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 2
A transphobic hate group tried to bring a case to ban trans folk from using the appropriately gendered pool at Hampstead Heath, as they’ve been doing for years. The case got dismissed.
You wouldn’t know it from this headline.
29.01.2026 12:36 — 👍 210 🔁 36 💬 4 📌 0
bumping this in case anyone would like a free ticket to this concert (on Schubert's birthday!)
29.01.2026 10:52 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
An old university lecture theatre
17th-century pews in a humanities lecture theatre at the University of Glasgow. James Boswell possibly sat on these while attending lectures by Adam Smith on moral philosophy in 1759. While a student here Boswell partied while at the same time became convinced he wanted to become a Catholic monk.
28.01.2026 19:28 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
Hey! Anyone in the UK! Please do this! #UKHE is a clusterfuck and I can imagine even the MPs who do care are a bit overwhelmed. But this is something very concrete they can do.
And it's crucial: we need an end to this short-sighted 'cost-saving' that wrecks long-term destruction.
28.01.2026 16:52 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
THE RUFFS ARE BACK
#earlymodern is SO hot right now! #Impact.
28.01.2026 17:28 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Blue sky with a black line across it (overhead power line for trains)
today's blue sky; grateful for this, for lovely students, and for the feast of @jarriere.bsky.social 🎉
28.01.2026 11:18 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
never thought of my first HoD as Lady C before... 😂
28.01.2026 08:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Continuing (b/c I'm once more teaching my Austen class) my JANE AUSTEN GUIDE TO FACULTY MEETINGS
“Now and then, they were honoured with a call from her ladyship . . .She examined into their employments, looked at their work, and advised them to do it differently ” –Pride and Prejudice, ch. 30
28.01.2026 01:30 — 👍 77 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0
Philly folks! Next Saturday February 7 at 6pm: an event on poetry and labor at Lot 49 Books in Fishtown, feat. @keegancf.bsky.social, Gina Myers, and me. Please spread far and wide! Come along!!
27.01.2026 22:23 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
I reviewed Kristin Grogan's brilliant new book _Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work_ for The Space Between
scalar.usc.edu/works/the-sp...
27.01.2026 02:46 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Reading, writing, meditating. Lammy-awarded critic. Modestly published poet. Hill Professor of English and Chair of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at UT-Austin. Speaking for myself as a private citizen.
https://lisalmoore.com/
¶full-time rare book librarian & bibliographer, part-time himbo ¶historian of print and media ¶often found playing video games, at the cinema, or riding public transit ¶he/him 🏳️🌈
📍Atlanta
https://linktr.ee/iamdylanlewis
A weekly murder mystery podcast beginning November 30, written and narrated by Mark Watson and featuring many guest stars. TV star Stevie Chase has been murdered on his 60th birthday. Can we help? Join the investigation: https://discord.gg/2eD3ZJ5UGN
Assistant Professor of English @ Harvard. Medieval literature, queer theory, fan fiction & fan studies. She/her. Support trans rights.
http://www.drannawilson.com/
Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Gender Affirming Voice Coaching & Trans Voice Alteration with Hannah-Rose Tristram (they/she). Respectful, welcoming sessions with a highly trained, qualified & experienced voice professional, to support you with your voice goals.
A monthly discussion group facilitating conversation and collaboration between students and junior scholars researching Anne Lister's life & writings. Images: West Yorkshire Archive Service, SH:7/ML/E/19/0002 and SH:7/ML/E/13/0124
🛟🏳️🌈The Coast is Queer is the UK's biggest and brightest festival of LGBTQ+ literature🏳️🌈 🛟
Attenborough Centre Brighton 9 – 12 October 2025
Oinpegitjoig Mi'gmaw.
Wrote The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in 18th-Century British Literature and Culture. Next book on Indigenous material culture in the 18thc.
Teaches 18th-century lit and Indigenous Studies.
Feral folk singer, lover of stone circles, ancestral voices, folk tales, the wyrd and the eerie.
“Imagine if Broadcast’s Trish Keenan had been kidnapped at birth by The Copper Family and raised on a diet of Angela Carter’s folk tales” (KLOFmag)
Learning the piano, learning about songs | Director Leeds Song | Professor Royal Academy of Music | Resident Musician Pembroke College, Cambridge | Enthusiastic Gluton | Amateurish Father
Www.josephmiddleton.com
Agent: IMG ARTISTS
Writer and academic | London and Wivenhoe | QMUL researcher | former creative writing teacher at Birkbeck and English Professor at University of Calgary | queer feminist theory | experimental writing
Senior Lecturer in British Literature (Romanticism) *UMLP Besançon, France * Southampton Centre for C19 Research * Romanticism, long C18, media theory, environmental humanities * Book in preparation : Shelley’s Ardent Intercessor (Liverpool UP)
“writer” & “academic” (poetry, poetics, archives, gender, failure) // British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @ St Andrews // co-director Network for New York School Studies // Houghton Library Visiting Fellow, Harvard // she/her // 🧂 // linktr.ee/rosacampbell
NOTCHES is a collaborative and international history of sexuality blog that aims to get people inside and outside the academy thinking about histories of sex and sexualities in the past and in the present across regions, periods and themes.
Former UK Judge, now Litigation Strategist (W-Legal UK). Speaker & human rights fighter. Brought McCloud v Ministry of Justice, returning pensions to Public Sector workers. Largest State discrimination claim for all women ever.
